# Introduction and useful links

This Course was ran by [Intellectual Property Office](https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/intellectual-property-office).

* Types of IP: unregistered: copyright, unregistered trademarks, trade secretes and “know how”.
* Universities are seeing IP licensing as new funding stream
* Research Impact agenda imposes demands on the uni to demonstrate "impact"

* Information for researches [cracking ideas site](https://crackingideas.com/aboutip)

* Part of [vitae development framework](https://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers-professional-development/about-the-vitae-researcher-development-framework)

* [KEF Knowledge Exchange Framework](https://re.ukri.org/knowledge-exchange/knowledge-exchange-framework/)

* [Lambert toolkit](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/university-and-business-collaboration-agreements-lambert-toolkit)

* [University of Leeds Policy](http://www.leeds.ac.uk/secretariat/documents/ipr_policy.pdf)

## Copyright - notes

* unregistered 
* Example: PhD Thesis - first author owns
* third party copyright. Non owner produced content e.g. photographs etc. Requires permission to publish online.
* Creative Commons to make sure attribution is made
* 70 years after death

## Patents

* 20 years
* Physical things
* unlikely to be used in CEMAC

## Leeds Uni

* James Kitson - commercialisation at Leeds
* REF 2021 demonstrating impacts - mentions software
* [ipr policy](http://www.leeds.ac.uk/secretariat/documents/ipr_policy.pdf)
* For all staff uni owns the IP - you may own up to 40% if went off and made a business though.
* For Joint work staff and students - uni owns - even just discussions with PhD supervisors
* No clear information on Open Source Software still.